Important Facts To Know About Past Union Budgets

The first Budget of Independent India was presented on November 26, 1947, by the then Finance Minister RK Sanmukham Chetty under the government of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, according to data available on Department of Economic Affairs' website - dea.gov.in. The Budget statement presented by Mr Chetty covered a period of seven and half months from August 15, 1947 to March 31, 1948, according to Department of Ec...